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10/07/2026 9:21 pm
TL;DR: Organizations managing SOC 2, ISO, PCI, HITRUST, FedRAMP, CMMC, HIPAA and similar demands are finding that overlap does not automatically create efficiency, according to Drata’s Partner POV with Baker Tilly. The real challenge is aligning evidence, controls and accountability without turning compliance into duplicate work.
Editorial analysis by NHI Mgmt Group, based on content published by Drata: “Simplifying Compliance in a Multi-Framework World: A Baker Tilly Perspective”.
Key questions
A: Teams lose efficiency fast.
Q: Why do AI inventories matter for security and compliance teams?
A: AI inventories matter because you cannot control what you cannot see.
Q: When does compliance automation actually reduce audit burden?
A: It reduces burden when evidence is collected from live systems and tied to a stable control model, not when teams still have to clean exports and reconcile exceptions manually.
Practitioner guidance
- Standardise shared control mappings Build one control library that maps each operational control to every applicable framework, so the same test and evidence package can be reused instead of rebuilt.
- Centralise evidence ownership Assign a named owner for each control and each evidence stream, including identity and access evidence, so auditors do not have to reconcile parallel versions of the truth.
- Shift to continuous control monitoring Track evidence and control health throughout the year rather than collecting it only before audits, especially for recurring access reviews and vendor oversight.
Bottom line: Multi-framework compliance creates hidden overhead when teams assume that overlapping requirements automatically equal reusable controls.
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10/07/2026 9:44 pm
Control duplication is the hidden tax of multi-framework compliance. The article shows that overlap between frameworks rarely translates into reuse unless evidence, ownership and control interpretation are intentionally normalised. That is why the same organisation can appear compliant on paper yet still spend disproportionate time reconciling duplicate work. The practitioner lesson is to design for control portability, not just framework coverage.
A question worth separating out:
Q: How should IAM and access governance fit into multi-framework compliance programmes?
A: IAM should be treated as a shared evidence source across frameworks, not as a set of separate control tasks. That means one authoritative view of access approvals, privileged accounts, reviews and offboarding evidence that can support audit needs without creating duplicate governance workflows.
👉 Read our full editorial: Multi-framework compliance is exposing the cost of control duplication